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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women who were once his lovers, St. Clair also meets embittered Marny (Victor Francen), who has been obsessed for years by the suspicion that his wife killed herself after St. Clair tired of her. When St. Clair attempts to renew his youth by captivating a simple-minded young barmaid (Madeleine Ozeray), Marny sees history repeating itself, intervenes. As the two ancient rivals match wits, the home passes through a financial crisis, a strike against short rations led by wrinkled, wry Cabris-sade (Michel Simon), who spent a lifetime in the theatre understudying healthy actors. Typical shot: St. Clair, ensconced with...
...watchword of most cancer researchers. No cure has been found, but practically all types of cancer, if detected in time, can be checked. Proud of its prevention progress was the Third International Cancer Congress, which met last week in Atlantic City, discussed a number of remarkable suggestions for nipping young cancer growths...
...Ties. One cold winter day 14 years ago, while young Dr. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer was pondering cancer problems in Basle, Switzerland, he noticed a cup of steaming hot coffee and one of tea resting side by side on a window sill. The steam from both cups condensed on the window pane, but the crystals of the frost patterns were very different. Dr. Pfeiffer had a hunch that the blood of cancer victims and the blood of healthy persons might perhaps form crystals as different as those of coffee and tea. After trying some 23 substances, he hit on copper chloride...
...believed that somehow the growth of cancer was related to vitamin deficiency. According to standard laboratory methods, he produced cancers in young mice by coating them with tar for several weeks. The offspring of these mice were fed a diet rich in vitamins A, B, C, D and E. One day, Dr. Davidson found to his surprise that they were no longer susceptible to cancer when tarred. From the tissues of "newly dropped young" of these resistant mice, Dr. Davidson made a boiled filtrate. Injections of this filtrate, plus a high vitamin diet, produced strong cancer resistance in ordinary mice...
Back in St. Paul young Stout, long a worshipper of such oldtime airmen as Octave Chanute and Glenn Curtiss, waded ear-deep into aviation. In 1922, heartened by the success of his crude "Batwing," he drafted plans for the first all-metal commercial plane. To some 100 U. S. industrialists went Inventor Stout, asked them for $1,000 each. Said he: "You may never get your money back, but you'll have $1,000 worth...